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Tuesday, 9 November 2021 Another success for the HCI-IS conference

Human-computer interaction in information society is a conference organized by the Slovenian HCI community. The purpose of the conference is to gather researchers, practitioners and students in the field and offer the opportunity to exchange experiences  and research results, as well as to establish contacts for future cooperation.

This year's HCI-IS conference, which was the sixth in a row, can once again be attributed to great success.

After last year's implementation, which took place online due to measures for curbing the spread of the epidemics, this year we were very happy to host as many as 27 conference participants.

    

This year's event also hosted two invited lectures given by Prof. Gregor Geršak, PhD (UNI LJ, Faculty of Electrical Engineering) and Assoc. Prof. Peter Knees, PhD (TU Wien).

Peter Knees is Associate Professor at the Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics. He is an active member of the Music Information Retrieval research community, reaching out to the related fields of multimedia and text information retrieval, recommender systems, and the digital arts. His research activities center on music search engines and interfaces as well as music recommender systems, and more recently, on smart(er) tools for music creation. He co-authored the book “Music Similarity and Retrieval: An Introduction” and is a contributor of the Digital Humanism initiative.

Gregor Geršak received the Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. His research interests include the theory of measurements, precision measurement of magnetic flux density, and pressure and thermometry. His focus is on metrology of biomedical instrumentation with emphasis on devices for non-invasive blood pressure measurement and psychophysiological measurements.

We are looking forward to the next HCI-IS conference, which, given the extremely rapid changes in the world of digitalization, will certainly bring a lot of novelties once again.